Comments by "annoyed aussie" (@annoyedaussie3942) on "ABC News" channel.

  1.  @marylee4553  I don't think you understood my point Trump did actually say the problem with testing is more positive results or words to that effect. Flagged as in like the saying that's a red flag particularly used in investment language like the CEO is selling down his or her holding indicating he or she doesn't have confidence in the company which is a red flag.
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  2. LOL join Australia better, we covid 19 free just about and with extra iron ore we can have a monopoly and charge more to China.
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  3. The polls have weightings according to likely voters in each demographic and also what each demographic is likely to vote in percentage terms. Polls can be way out especially because the drop box issue would encourage a larger Democrat turnout and a swing to the Democrats because not everyone thinks that behaviour is acceptable. Texas is in play but still favours Trump.
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  4. I was thinking, sort of glad she's not my relative, but then again maybe I'd be dead and unaware so it wouldn't matter.
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  5. Best comment so far, apparently fear of not being able to wipe one's bottom is greater than the risk of death by some virus so I think the same principles should apply here.
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  6. Unfortunately I believe you, they can't however cover up deaths but they can delay the reporting time. A few days from when a death occurs would be quite normal in the US due to the case load , but from what you say the delay seems much longer than expected. They can't get in trouble though because proof would be required that the delay in reporting is intentional . I have a suspicion that many cases will be reported in certain states after November 3. Best of luck to you and I know many appreciate the work you are doing even if some don't. Stay strong and seek help personally if things get too much. From Australia 🇦🇺
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  7. I don't really think so it's just a matter of speculation which they shouldn't do because it only confuses people more. It would be better if they said the basic medical stuff and just say The President is in a stable condition and note that hospitalisation normally only occurs after 2 weeks or so and death a significant time after that. It would be unwise to speculate what condition the president will be in after a week because we simply don't know, we only know he is currently in a stable condition with symptoms that would normally not require hospitalisation and this measure is only precautionary at this stage. Because what they have done now is speculated that he will not get very sick and based on probability he won't but if he does everyone will get annoyed.
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  8. What normally happens in recent years at least is travel bans of any high officials. Have to wait to Jan 21 though because he is still legally the president for now. I expect Trump will go but the internal damage he is doing currently to the US is significant and a pretty bad look internationally.
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  9. The failed response means other healthcare issues can't be responded to properly because a lot of health care resources being put into covid 19 including extra measures required when patients are admitted for other reasons to try and reduce the chance of giving them the virus. I wish you the best of luck.
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  10. Deep state = public servants including military? Who ever is against this deep state an American term only I think should ask themselves , do I hate every public servant even those selected by Donald Trump? If you answer in a certain way you are delusional, it's true the public service is disfunctional by high income country standards but that's as far as it goes. If I was a conspiracy theorist I would think Trump is the deep state leader, done more for functional authoritarian governments than any other person in the world in recent history and because the US is biggest and most well known given all Democracies a bad name.
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  11. What confuses most about the peaceful protestors is what they actually want. I haven't heard them indicate what law it is they want changed. I haven't in the case of Minneapolis heard a call for either the police commissioner or mayor to resign, these are the ones in charge. I think that the protests could end up lowering the standard of police officers because who wants to be shouted at and considered guilty of misconduct due to the actions of others.
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  12. I think what you say is a possibility.
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  13. Look up the definition of King. I think you will find it really does apply to the US president. I am Australian and we are a constitutional monarchy under the Westminster system of government, no individual has as much power compared to your president. The government has ministers (secretaries) who come from the parliamentary pool of elected officials, a US president selects the entire government and has absolute discretion in doing so and can hire and fire as he wants. I consider the US system to really be elected absolute monarchy to a large extent. He has the power of Veto which actually gets used frequently, the governor general in Australia does too but I am unaware of it ever being used. It seems the powers of an Australian governor general are technically similar in many respects except nominating ministers, only putting a prime minister in power in the case of a deadlocked election where no party can gain power which has never occured because minor parties will always support one of the major parties in the case of no party getting a majority. I think the worst problem is the president controls the entire government that is selecting all the ministers and then if they don't do as he says he can just sack them. Too much power for any individual in my opinion. I actually voted for Australia to be a Republic with the current system in place , but if the system was to change to something similar to the US system , I'll keep the constitutional monarchy thanks.
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  14. Less chance of getting covid not no chance. Social distancing etc. Reduces the chance further.
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  15. Just one question why would the left want to overthrow a presidential election where a Democrat candidate won?
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  16. I would think that's an atribute if they can pull it off. How is it dishonest?
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  17.  @loveisthemostpowerfulforce1397  Have you read your second comment back to yourself, you are saying 99.9% of the time the virus has mutated in the US that strain has survived. If you meant people clearly you are way out maybe 20% infected and already more than 0.1% of the population dead. South Dakota has about 45% rural population so not that dense and the city not a big city and they already get to 0.17% of their population dead, either they are killing the city populations at a massive rate or have actually worked out an effective method of spreading the virus in a rural population. Any bad actors will study this state to find out how it achieved such a result arguably the worst jurisdiction in the world, even worse than Florida because it has big cities.
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  18. I am wondering if you are being sarcastic or not? Hard to tell given comments going around.
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  19.  @LundBrandon  Locking down 11,000,000 people and not allowing them to leave there apartments and then building a hospital in a week at emergency speed , seems pretty dangerous to me. Not sure where you get your information from Xi Jingping going to the area with a mask on indicated danger also , Trump seems to have been your adviser that you were listening to or even Fauci early on, Boris Johnson in the begining and Brazilian president the same and a few others. Maybe your country should have been looking at China and the government behaviour there and you wouldn't have any cases in your country now.
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  20.  @I_SuperHiro_I  China I think you could call socialist has year on year economic growth and less socialist countries have to varying degrees economic collapse. So it's nothing to do with socialism.
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  21. I think embarrassed given all the testing that goes on they were totally arrogant. They know nobody else has access to such resources but they still managed what would be considered a significant outbreak in many countries.
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  22. Think of this quote " The government is afraid of the guns people have because they have to have control of the people at all times. Once you take away the guns you can do anything to the people. You give them an inch and they take a mile. I believe we are slowly turning into a socialist government. ......." That quote is from Timothy Mcveigh. I have seen Trump supporters paraphrase this over and over again and the rhetoric itself is remarkably similar to what Trump said at his rallies, "They are coming for your guns ... Joe is going to turn the US communist" So my question is why would Trump speak like Timothy Mcveigh, surely he knows this will anger gun owners who are paranoid. Add to that after the election telling them that they were cheated and the election was fraudulent and you get what we see.
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  23. I am Australian so certainly doesn't apply in my country at any time, this is a cruel point but likely. I bet you gun sales up up year on year last month , there is a proportion of the US population whenever they become afraid they buy more guns, gun sales are like the main street version of the VIX ( volatility index for stock markets)
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  24. There is another explanation people are not considering. The prison operators who are often private have an incentive to look after their prisoners. More sick people , more costs, more dead people, less prisoners. I would imagine that most contracts would have a payment for prisoner numbers.
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  25. They do have that right in Colorado, so in the case of Colorado clearly not many.
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  26.  @Me-ou5tc  what have you been smoking the US spread the virus to every state and territory, not a single county in the entire country without a case. To this day voluntary self isolation for international arrivals. The US did nothing of consequence to this day other than vaccine creation. Edit: misread your comment, sorry about that ignore my tone above.
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  27. It's about European trade with West Pacific and Asia. Supply chains are global so if a ship with just a single component needed for a major good like a mobile phone or computer is held up, that can cause major problems. The oil price is global so anything affecting it will cause an effect here. The price of petrol in Brisbane is $1.67 generally and at at least one place probably several on Sunshine Coast $1.25 . The petrol prices these days are very much based on location. You remove tax and the original cost of oil from my above pricing it's an incredible difference.
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  28.  @Hoss-ro5cd  no there's a balance, yes the US should be less interventionist, in this case they intervene with the UN stopping even a statement and continue to supply weapons and moral support to anything Israel does.
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  29. Because there's always a surge in one state or another in the US, I bet you in November or so when it's getting quite cool and vaccines wearing off to some extent there will be a surge in the North East of US.
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  30.  @Midwit_Madness  it doesn't work like that, are you going to participate in the economy and risk killing grandma or alternatively do you think this is a great time to expand business. If hospitals fill up are you ok with just letting them die on the sidewalk because it would affect the economy to put restrictions in place. If you answer yes to all 3 I hope you aren't an investor.
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  31. So Republican Party are progressives? I am not American so please explain this to me as I thought some members of the Democratic Party were considered progressives.
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  32. It's only 6 stocks in the S&P 500 that moved the market, if not for them the market would be way lower.
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  33. Teenagers or not much older wandering around armed and talking about possible insurrection doesn't sound that funny to me.
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  34.  @DJCayne  Rich countries can from a technical perspective contain the virus and so can some middle income countries. However politically it seems impossible in many countries, I am from Australia and 2 cases of community transmission last 24 hours. If you look at the broader region East Asia plus ASEAN plus Australasia which has over 2 billion population and I think approaching 1.5 million cases , so not even 1 in 1,000 getting it so far. If there is no effective vaccine we might have a sort of segregated world for a while. Some ASEAN countries look like they probably can't contain it and 2 might fall into that position because of political disruptions.
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  35.  @DJCayne  Most if not all countries in my region have enforced 14 day quarantine for any arrivals including interstate in Australia's case if there is an outbreak. Usually hotel quarantine but I think some might allow at home but still enforced. Contact tracing is international here if an arrival tests positive then the country they came from will be notified. In the case of a potential risk heading to another state or country they will be informed like a cargo ship when someone has tested positive and the person removed but the ship continues on the destination to give an example will test the crew prior to arrival, I have a feeling one jurisdiction does this as a matter of routine. You can never contain a virus if you keep letting it in with nothing more than voluntary quarantine as is practiced throughout Europe and the US, up to now anyway, a couple of jurisdictions in Europe I think are considering border restrictions for example Wales in the UK and maybe Republic of Ireland, have to see what they do next.
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  36. Says the person with an account opened today.
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  37.  @pakde8002  it's relative not meant to offend in any way. Indonesia and Philippines are struggling and when vaccines start to become available I am hopeful that these 2 countries will receive a high priority by the other governments in the region like Australia. Australia can really take it's time and if the vaccines are as effective as is suggested there might never actually be any real need for mass vaccinations , I think if we just vaccinate medical staff and possibly the at risk old people that would be enough and everyone entering either quarantine as now or vaccinated, most will choose vaccine versus paying to be locked in a hotel but can't really force Australian citizens I think , but can force foreigners entering to have a vaccine as a condition of entry.
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  38. In Queensland Australia a common definition of an outbreak is maybe 5 connected cases. What is an outbreak in the US in common language? Just a number would be fine.
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  39. Take care.
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  40. Paper is still the most secure method. Any electronic method can be hacked. Try forging 20,000 signatures. I am not suggesting electronic methods might be better in some ways but you need an equal amount of enhanced security for the same level of efficacy.
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  41. It needs to go to at least 3 state courts first before any federal court challenge if the situation remains the same. I think pretty unlikely 3 out of 4 states 2 with Republican governor's and 2 Democrat governor's have somehow colluded to kick Trump out.
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  42. Obesity is well known, other factors you mention might make a small difference but getting to a reasonable body weight is the number one thing.
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  43. Yeah the number of people saying his is right wing is amazing.
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  44. Does it matter? Pretty silly comment actually, both left and right leaning people have carried out murders in the last year based on actual ideology. This was nothing to do with ideology as far as we know unless he targeted people based on political leaning.
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  45. And in other breaking news West Pacific ( East Asia plus ASEAN plus Australasia) reported almost 10,000 cases and possibly up to 200 deaths , one of the deadliest days so far. With a regional population of more than 2 Billion this is a devastating blow with some countries looking to be at risk of things getting out of control. Last statement I say in all seriousness.
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  46.  @patrickc3419  The first 2 certainly didn't occur in Queensland and the other things you mentioned occurred all over the world. You are a rather ignorant person who doesn't believe in property rights at all because you do not respect property owners right to have conditions of entry. Are you a communist because that's the only people who don't believe in private property?
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  47.  @gameshot586  It's relative, you are aware only 1 in 7 businesses last 4 years right and your personal example was just News Corporation consolidating, nothing to do with pandemic whether or not they used that as an excuse. Queensland's economy is far better than others in Australia and better than virtually every "open" country which aren't open actually , they still having lockdowns in Europe. As far as inflation of petrol actually nothing to do with QLD, that's world oil price and tax. You have to remember nowhere has had a boom and yes some businesses have failed just as they did in Sweden. We could become socialist like Northern European countries with government spending over 50% of GDP or run on debt like US , Canada and UK, do you favour either of these options? Everything is open , I am not saying QLD should lockdown so your last comment is just absurd.
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  48.  @gameshot586  Oh and I am unaware of the Aussie Coup d'etat when the military took over and freed people from the leper colonies. The great leper liberation movement. I thought they ignored the lepers and fought against Japanese and Allies, Germans and allies and communist North Korea , Communist North Vietnam. Anyway look forward to this history I was unaware of. Leper colonies were far worse than any covid restrictions.
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  49.  Susie Goodwin  what are you on about, this guy if he pulled it off would only kill one. Australia to be fair might have the same per capita number of serial killers but we have virtually no gang killings and we don't really have mass murderers other than the event in Christchurch NZ or the Tasmania event more than 20 years ago.
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  50. Correct idea but urbanisation rate is better and also consider that New York City is a large city unlike whatever South Dakota has.
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